Buddha
23rd October 2014, 07:42 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, according to preliminary test results, city officials said Thursday.
He's the fourth confirmed case in the U.S. and the first in the city. A further test by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will confirm the initial test.
A law enforcement official and a City official received notification of the preliminary test results and told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity but weren't authorized to discuss the case publicly before a Thursday night news conference.
Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor, returned from Guinea more than a week ago and reported Thursday coming down with a 103-degree fever and diarrhea. He was rushed to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola center, and was being treated in a specially built isolation ward.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched an Ebola response team to New York, and the city's disease detectives have been tracing the doctor's contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk.
City officials say the doctor acknowledged riding the subway and taking a cab to a Brooklyn bowling alley in the past week before he started showing symptoms.
https://news.yahoo.com/doctor-visited-africa-tested-ebola-nyc-003404036.html
I'm not really on the ebola hype train, just posting the breaking info ;)
He's the fourth confirmed case in the U.S. and the first in the city. A further test by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will confirm the initial test.
A law enforcement official and a City official received notification of the preliminary test results and told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity but weren't authorized to discuss the case publicly before a Thursday night news conference.
Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor, returned from Guinea more than a week ago and reported Thursday coming down with a 103-degree fever and diarrhea. He was rushed to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola center, and was being treated in a specially built isolation ward.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched an Ebola response team to New York, and the city's disease detectives have been tracing the doctor's contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk.
City officials say the doctor acknowledged riding the subway and taking a cab to a Brooklyn bowling alley in the past week before he started showing symptoms.
https://news.yahoo.com/doctor-visited-africa-tested-ebola-nyc-003404036.html
I'm not really on the ebola hype train, just posting the breaking info ;)